Improvement in egg-carriers



UNITED ISTATES.

PATENT OFFICE ABNER H. BRYANT, on cHIcAGo, ILLINoAIs.,

IMPROVEMENT IN EGG-CARRIERs" Specification forming part of LettersPatent No. 139,540, dated June 3, 1873 applicationled i April 12, 1873.i

`2 and 3 are views of the two partition-strips.

Thislinvention has relation to egg-carriers;

` and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of theinterlacing slits of the partition-strips, whether the latter be singleor double, whereby the interwoven partitionstrips will form a layer ofegg-pockets which will be a secure structure, not easily pulled apart byhandling.

In the ordinary layer of pockets, constructed by interweaving slittedpartition-strips, the latter are easily pulled apart-,even in the mostcareful handling. It is the object of this invention to obvia-te thisdifficulty by locking or hooking the strips together.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated a method of forming theinterlacing slits, whereby this object is effected.

A designates the strip running in oneldirection, and B, the transversestrip, running at right angles thereto. The strip A is provided atproper intervals with short slits a, extending in the saine verticalline, crosswise of the strip and toward its central portion, b, which isundivided. The strip B is provided with a series of long irregularslits. c, at suitable intervals, extending crosswise of the strip, fromonel edge toward the other, d, which is undivided; or, the slits may bemade alternately from each edge of the strip, the former method being,however, preferred. The slits or notches c are made irregular in orderthat they may be locked on the cross' strip. In the exampleillustratedin the drawings, the irregularity consists mainly in theshort bend e, near the middle of the slit,where by the partition-Wall,near its edge anden one side of the slit, is extended in the form of anotset or hook, f, andinade to project over and beyond the inner `andvertical portion got the slit. The lower edge of the bend ofthe slit maybe rounded oli' for convenience in putting the strips together.` Thestrips are interwoven by passing the strips A-into the slits of thestrips B unt-il their edges lare flush with each other, andthe centralportion b, between the slits of the strip A, is seated in the inner orcentral and vertical part g of the slit c of the strip 5B. At the sametime the offset or hook f is passed through the slit a in one edge ofthestrip A,and the interlaced strips are locked together, the slit a in theother edge ot' the `strip A embracing the undivided edge d of the stripB. The bracing effect of the combination of the shortslits a ot' thestrip A with the irregularl slits of the transverse strip is important,giving great` strength to the entire tray.`

I do not desire to contne myself tothe `precise method of `constructingthe interlacin g and interlocking strips, as above described,`

as this may be varied in many`ways,which will occur to those skilled inthearts What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isy In an egg-carrier interlacing strips, having slits arrangedsubstantially` as` specified, so i that the intersecting parts areinterlocked in.;

position.

- 1n testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

ABNEB. H. BRYANT.

Witnesses: y

Gnd-P. Ross, y Crus. W. S'rocKToN.

